- There is no forgiveness in nature.
Ugo Betti
- In wilderness I sense the miracle of life, and behind it our scientific accomplishments fade to trivia.
Charles Lindbergh
- And finally Winter, with its bitin’, whinin’ wind, and all the land will be mantled with snow.
Roy Bean
- A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water.
Carl Reiner
- What makes a river so restful to people is that it doesn’t have any doubt – it is sure to get where it is going, and it doesn’t want to go anywhere else.
Hal Boyle
- I consider nature a vast chemical laboratory in which all kinds of composition and decompositions are formed.
Antoine Lavoisier
- The moon is at her full, and riding high, Floods the calm fields with light. The airs that hover in the summer sky Are all asleep tonight.
William Cullen Bryant
- The air soft as that of Seville in April, and so fragrant that it was delicious to breathe it.
Christopher Columbus
- Nature is inside art as its content, not outside as its model.
Marilyn French
- Nature abhors annihilation.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
- In nature there are few sharp lines.
A. R. Ammons
- Birds have wings; they’re free; they can fly where they want when they want. They have the kind of mobility many people envy.
Roger Tory Peterson
- Bats drink on the wing, like swallows, by sipping the surface, as they play over pools and streams.
Gilbert White
- The man who interprets Nature is always held in great honor.
Zora Neale Hurston
- One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
William Shakespeare
- The bluebird carries the sky on his back.
Henry David Thoreau
- I’ve always regarded nature as the clothing of God.
Alan Hovhaness
- I saw old Autumn in the misty morn stand shadowless like silence, listening to silence.
Thomas Hood
- Autumn’s the mellow time.
William Allingham
- Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring, you will vainly look for fruit on it in autumn.
Walter Scott
- The moment a little boy is concerned with which is a jay and which is a sparrow, he can no longer see the birds or hear them sing.
Eric Berne
- Autumn arrives in early morning, but spring at the close of a winter day.
Elizabeth Bowen
- The good man is the friend of all living things.
Mahatma Gandhi
- Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.
William Cowper
- The very winds whispered in soothing accents, and maternal Nature bade me weep no more.
Mary Shelley
- Giant oak trees… have deep root systems that can extend two-and-one-half times their height. Such trees rarely are blown downregardless of how violent the storms may be.
Joseph B. Wirthlin
- Earth is a flower and it’s pollinating.
Neil Young
- Each blade of grass has its spot on earth whence it draws its life, its strength; and so is man rooted to the land from which he draws his faith together with his life.
Joseph Conrad
- To destroy is still the strongest instinct in nature.
Max Beerbohm
- Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturbed.
Walt Whitman
- Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does.
George Bernard Shaw
- Those little nimble musicians of the air, that warble forth their curious ditties, with which nature hath furnished them to the shame of art.
Izaak Walton
- We cannot command Nature except by obeying her.
Francis Bacon
- Mother Nature may be forgiving this year, or next year, but eventually she’s going to come around and whack you. You’ve got to be prepared.
Geraldo Rivera
- I’m very gregarious, but I love being in the hills on my own.
Norman MacCaig
- Nature was my kindergarten.
William Christopher Handy
- Flowers are without hope. Because hope is tomorrow and flowers have no tomorrow.
Antonio Porchia
- The happiness of the bee and the dolphin is to exist. For man it is to know that and to wonder at it.
Jacques Yves Cousteau
- For every person who has ever lived there has come, at last, a spring he will never see. Glory then in the springs that are yours.
Pam Brown
- The fall is my favorite time of year. I love the colors. The sun is out, you get warmth on your skin but there’s the coolness of the breeze. It’s really comfortable.
Ricky Skaggs
- The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.
John Muir
- Nature is the master of talents; genius is the master of nature.
Josiah Gilbert Holland
- I know the lands are lit, with all the autumn blaze of Goldenrod.
Helen Hunt Jackson
- We have the capacity to receive messages from the stars and the songs of the night winds.
Ruth St. Denis
- To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival.
Wendell Berry
- Even if one tree falls down it wouldn’t affect the entire forest.
Chen Shui-bian
- The cool wind blew in my face and all at once I felt as if I had shed dullness from myself. Before me lay a long gray line with a black mark down the center. The birds were singing. It was spring.
Burl Ives
- I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
Frank Lloyd Wright